Plainsmen Basketball off to 1-6 start

Team takes on some of the top competitors in the country

The Northeastern Junior College Plainsmen are off to a 1-6 start but that is no knock on the team, who scheduled some of the toughest teams in Junior College Athletics to start out their season. The Plainsmen started out 1-1 this season and have since dropped five.

The massive road start included five straight weeks on the road and 7,300 miles of travel.

Most recently, the Plainsmen took on 85-76 at Swede Erickson Gym on Monday night. The Thunderbirds were ranked 19th in the country at the time the two teams played.

The weekend before, the Plainsmen suffered a 70-61 loss to Northwest College and 72-62 to Sheridan College in the Northwest Wyoming College Tournament.

The weekend before that, Nov. 9 and 10, the Plainsmen were in action in the South Plains Texas Tournament where they fell to No. 1 South Plains College 95-49, who are defending last year's NJCAA Division I title, and to No. 3 Howard Junior College, 72-56.

Against Howard, Jamal Peterson, who came off the bench and scored 13 points, led the Plainsmen. Against South Plains, Kameron Pearce, who also scored 13, led the effort.

The road trip is not over as the Plainsmen will head to North Platte, Neb., on Nov. 27 before they finally return home for the NJC Tournament on Nov. 30 when they host Air Force and Dec. 1 when they take on Casper once again.

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